Letters provide a theme and structure for the series but also preserve the individual significance of each work. In the simplest sense each letter can be read as a symbol for any word of which it is the initial as well as having deeper esoteric associations concerning the magic of utterances, statements or spells (perhaps like Mc Cahon’s I Am painting). A letter is holographic in that the part stands for the whole.

Even without a word, letters have their own shape, style and personality, capped or uncapped. They are special and unique whatever significance they might have for the viewer. In the works they have their own landscape or realm in which they exist, like the other shapes and figures they interact with (or not), reflecting the way they inhabit different levels of being.

The use of letters, like other images I use, reflect a compelling urge to tell my story, convey the truth and generally communicate about what I love or feel strongly about. The power of language is its ability to be ambiguous or pragmatic despite its context. Certain concepts or narratives, by their nature, cannot be named, except in pictorial forms or images and it is not my intention to be veiled, obtuse or obscure but to provoke thought or other ways of seeing things.

- Artist Statement, Love Letters – New Work, 2002